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EU Environmental Policies and Strategies in South-Eastern Europe - Training guidelines for involving CSOs from SEE in the implementation of EU nature-related legislation

… Assessment (SEA), Appropriate Assessments (AA) and land use planning documents. Ecological networks, as one of … planning and monitoring the efficiency of conservation and restoration measures. The final section gives an overview of … in the 1970s and 1980s, in countries where a strong land use planning tradition had created the institutional …
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Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines

… The most common causes of forest fires are human-induced: land clearing (especially for shifting cultivation, other … Fire management is the discipline of using fire to achieve land management and traditional use objectives, together with … warning, detection and mobilization, suppression, and restoration (including research and technology transfer). It …
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RAMSAR Handbook 3: Laws and institutions

… between: • wetlands, people and human institutions; • land and water use within and beyond national boundaries; • … areas, environmental impact assessment and audits, land-use planning, coastal management, water resource … VII.17, establish policies to implement peatland restoration and rehabilitation, where appropriate seeking the …
25 May 2026 Document

Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor

… 5.4 Protecting wildlife from harmful processes and land uses 5.5 Wildlife health 5.6 Human-wildlife conflicts 55 … (ownership and use rights and obligations, links with land and forest tenure), public participation in wildlife … It focuses exclusively on the identification and restoration of species that have reached critically low …
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Integrated coastal management law: Establishing and strengthening national legal frameworks for integrated coastal management

… Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution from Land-Based Sources (Paris), UKTS 64 (1978), Cmnd. 7251; 13 … Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution from Land-Based Sources (Athens), 19 ILM (1980), 869. In force on … Includes protection, maintenance, rehabilitation, restoration and enhancement of populations and ecosystems. …
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Rule: Reforming water governance

… of natural ecosystems. Effective management links land and water uses across the whole of a catchment area or … the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources to maximize economic and social … the river and its floodplain. Promote and support the restoration of damaged ecosystems throughout the river basin, …
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UNEP’s Compendium of Innovative Laws: promoting Green Economy & Sustainable Development

… against during agriculture will increase yield and prevent land soil erosion, water scarcity and overall land degradation hence sustainability of agriculture. Left: … development. The protection, conservation, rational use, restoration or substitution of the natural resources is …
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A2 - Integrating Environmental Concerns in National Water Law

… sources. These include: regulation of agricultural land use and practices regulation of the siting and operation of landfills and waste dumps regulation of urban land development, as regards the control of stormwater runoff … or surface waters. Also regulated are changes in land cultivation, and the application and storage of …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Marine litter legislation: a toolkit for policy makers

… 13 3. Laws Governing the Production and Use of Land-Based Materials Causing Marine Litter … into the Marine Environment ..................38 4.1 Land-Based Waste Disposal Requirements … (NOAA) Office of Coast Survey and Office of Response and Restoration surveyed and mapped the Gulf coast area and …
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Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual

… International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) UNESCO World … an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or … often led to communities being forcibly relocated from land that had in some cases been their traditional homelands …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity